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Once united in their opposition to U.S. involvement in Indochina, the two Senators were now divided on whether to provide more American military aid to Cambodia. The split dramatized the agony among political leaders in Washington as battlefield events in the small nations of Cambodia and South Viet Nam once again troubled America's long-tortured conscience concerning its role in that distant part of the world. The persistent Khmer Rouge rebels seemed on the verge of final military success as they pinched the Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh. Communist forces in South Viet Nam stepped up the fighting...
...Administration claims that the insurgents have no incentive to talk so long as they feel certain of victory on the battlefield. State Department officials recently disclosed that the U.S. made six attempts in the past year (variously using Peking, Hanoi and Moscow as intermediaries) to open a dialogue with the rebels. "All our efforts have been rebuffed," complained President Ford. The Khmer insurgents' leaders refuse to negotiate while Lon Nol continues to head the Phnom-Penh government. Moreover, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger apparently made no attempt during any of his seven visits to Peking to meet with Prince...
...Gorky) to a middle-class family. He joined the Bolshevik Party a few months before the 1917 revolution and advanced quickly in a succession of jobs: member of the secret police, no-nonsense manager of a key Soviet electrical-equipment factory and mayor of Moscow. Although he had no battlefield command experience, Bulganin became a general during World War II. Actually, he was a political commissar, charged with the task of keeping Red Army officers loyal to the Kremlin's leaders. In 1947 Stalin promoted Bulganin to Marshal of the Soviet Union and also named him Deputy Premier...
...time for R.A.F. interceptors to knock them out of the sky. Ever since, scientists have been busily expanding the world's electronic arsenals-while colleagues have been just as busy devising electronic countermeasures. The ingenuity and success of both efforts have been demonstrated in the skies and battlefields of Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The time-tested tactical adage that urges field commanders to "take the high ground" has now been all but replaced by a new military imperative: "To win, an army must gain electronic superiority on the battlefield...
...against an adversary's new weapon-will stand unchallenged for long. Every new achievement spurs ambitious and expensive counterefforts. As a result, the life span of each new kind of weaponry becomes shorter and shorter; even the "smartest" electronic devices may be obsolescent soon after they reach the battlefield...